Bastian Obermayer

Bastian Obermayer is co-founder and director of paper trail media and a Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative reporter. With his colleague Frederik Obermaier he received the ground breaking Panama Papers leak from an anonymous source. ICIJ-member Obermayer is on the board of Forbidden Stories since its founding in 2017 and won many awards, e.g. the German Reporter Award and the George Polk Award. He wrote several books, including the best selling accounts of the Panama Papers and of the so called Ibiza Affair, which led to snap elections in Austria and was turned into a fiction TV mini series by SKY. Before founding paper trail media, Obermayer worked for Süddeutsche Zeitung.